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Thread: Grizzly Gulch Slide 12/9/13
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12-09-2013, 09:34 PM #1
Grizzly Gulch Slide 12/9/13
Didn't see this posted yet. I'm speechless, glad she's ok, but speechless.
http://utahavalanchecenter.org/avalanches/18960
The vid, jeesus.
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12-09-2013, 09:44 PM #2Banned
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everything's cool so long as ya kin pull cord.
rog
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12-10-2013, 12:20 AM #3
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12-10-2013, 12:40 AM #4
I first read this and thought of Colorado (so centric, I know); been waiting for this one to happen, and that one with the thread description I though was going to be the first real one in Colorado (Grizz Gulch, yes we share that nomeclature), and would have matched up in my brain with a very predictable outcome.
I've given up even caring. Idiots, fucktards, morans, naivete, wrong place, wrong time; whatever you want to label it, I just don't give a flying fuck anymore.
As a person, I'm glad she's OK, but we'll see 50+ of these this year, and most won't end like that, and I just don't have the energy to give a shit anymore.
Noobs will be noobs, and pros will be pros, and bros will be bros, and people will make mistakes, season after season.
I'm not immune, but I'm over posts like this. Boring. Wash, rinse, repeat. Poor decision making, avi, burial, same outcome, sometimes not.
Just not really interested. Maybe there's a benefit in posting for the recycling newb crew here, or for folks that get lax, but this will be my last post on an incident based avi thread.
It just gets recycled, or old, depending on your prospective on things. Same shit, different year.
Fuck I'm jaded.Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
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12-10-2013, 04:19 AM #5Banned
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^^^^^^^^just like all of TGR. or any other forum.
rog
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12-10-2013, 05:01 AM #6
aint nothin surprises me round here any mo
from avvy profesionals engaged in winter trundling and yippie ya yea cornice whompin multiple chutes to make their obs mo better
To givin 100k to nitwits without avvy gear skiing the same [cough] backcountry line
To the roj thinkin blunderin into a loaded wind slab and surfin the white wave of death
makes ya an avvy expert.
shits amusing and sad"When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
"I find I have already had my reward, in the doing of the thing" - Buzz Holmstrom
"THIS IS WHAT WE DO"-AML -ski on in eternal peace
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12-10-2013, 07:49 AM #7
X2
Especially with the new explosion of airbag propoganda and GoPros and phone cams. Now, with a weak snowpack across the west, every Tom, Dick, and Sally has an airbag, and their buddy has a cam of some sort, and every internet avalanche guru that needs to continually pump up their ego, we are headed toward an Epic™ smug storm.
Should we learn from the mistakes of others? Absolutely. Do we need to MMQB every incident that goes viral? No. People will continue to make mistakes, and someday, you too will make a mistake.
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12-10-2013, 08:45 AM #8
Bet she was a Pro.
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12-10-2013, 09:39 AM #9
^^^^ I was thinking the same thing.
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12-10-2013, 09:49 AM #10
so ridiculous- wish we could have some good ol' darwinism going on here without having others be in danger from their dumbass choices.
No gear with the partner?! makes me want to heavily ridicule these people
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12-10-2013, 09:54 AM #11AF
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Not speechless any longer, just fucking hard to believe. How do you have a bag and your partner nothing. By the looks of it one could conclude she wanted to see what happens when you get caught. Now she can talk as if shes an expert, oh look at me, I survived an avalanche. The guy filming called it, saw it coming. Maybe she becomes the new Das Cunt?
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12-10-2013, 09:54 AM #12
"Dropping!", was this in Alaska?
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12-10-2013, 10:11 AM #13
"It was decided that the victim would go first since she was carrying all of her normal avalanche gear. "
Okay, so, hint number 1 that you shouldn't be skiing where you're skiing: it occurs to you that there's a decent chance you might have to use your avalanche gear. Jesus...
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12-10-2013, 10:21 AM #14
And goes "full irony" getting buried with no one else in your group to dig you up.
Any "pro" should know better...seriously, who goes out on a considerable day without those things?!?
It would be pretty fucking sad and pathetic to die buried under only a foot of snow. It reminds me of what happened to the squaretop couple back in '99 both were less then 2 feet deep and the female was only a foot deep but no one there to dig them out. they died.
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12-10-2013, 10:35 AM #15
I have farted and ripped out bigger pockets than that one.
Move upside and let the man go through...
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12-10-2013, 10:39 AM #16Banned
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12-10-2013, 11:19 AM #17
Rog- Just because one wears an ABS pack doesn't mean that it's carte blanche to take chances and not make the same EXACT decisions you would without one. This girl that got buried probably woulda taken the same line with or without an ABS. I mean anyone who has ever even remotely thought or learned about avalanche terrain would know that they were entering a bad terrain trap where she chose to take that turn.
I wear an ABS and it's absurd to group everyone together that wears one as being 'risk takers' or that if you do wear one you cease to use your brain.
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12-10-2013, 11:20 AM #18cliffed out
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I'd say a far bigger mental factor than thinking the airbag makes you indestructible was familiarity with the terrain leading to complacency. Sounds like the skier had been on said slope multiple times before. Countless video clips and photos have been shot in that exact spot. There's almost always a kicker or two built there. It's a 20 minute walk/skin from the TH. You could hit a house with a snowball if you had a strong arm. It's just not scary looking to someone who regularly skis lines with consequence
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12-10-2013, 11:34 AM #19
you know what they say....complacency will kill you
I agree with you though that it gives some people the false sense of security that they have 'skied it before' or 'there are other tracks are on it'
Still the partner with zero gear is the worst offender in this story. But I guess she went along knowing that
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12-10-2013, 12:09 PM #20Banned
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12-10-2013, 12:22 PM #21
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12-10-2013, 12:34 PM #22
If you listen closely to the video you can hear her 'last' words of
'I'm nottt you're buddyyy guyyyyyyyyyy!!!'
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12-10-2013, 01:26 PM #23
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